Music Theory and Scoring for Film
Composing from a Sound 1
A course by Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim , Music Producers and Composers
Joined February 2022
Joined February 2022
About the video: Composing from a Sound 1
Overview
“In this lesson, you'll see how to continue scoring the course project scene, elaborating on musical ideas from a single sound or sample. We'll run through what to do to make the sound unique, and how we can use it throughout the scene in different ways to show how it can evoke different emotions. ”
In this video lesson Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim addresses the topic: Composing from a Sound 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Music Theory and Scoring for Film. Learn how to score a film collaboratively, using your music to convey a feeling and tell the story..
Partial transcription of the video
“ Composing from a Sound In this lesson, we'll take over what Alex composed and we'll explore how we can add more to it. I want to add a bit of my own artistic voice to this and maybe start from a sound. Here on the screen, we can see that we have a session that Alex finalized for me. He did something called Bounce in Place. This is important to know and I'd like to explain it to you. These tracks that you see that are grayed out are the instrument tracks or MIDI tracks that Alex used to write. Sometimes when you're collaborating with other composers or an orchestrator, they might not have ...”
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Course summary for: Music Theory and Scoring for Film
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Audio, Music, Music Production
Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim
A course by Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim
Juan Dussán is a New York-based film composer. Since he was a young child learning the piano, he knew he was destined for a career in the arts. He graduated with a Master’s in Composition studies at New York University and has since worked on over 30 films as a composer, including Francesca Scorcese’s Crimson Ties, which premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival, and Wells Watson Jr’s short film Wendigo.
Alex Wakim is a New-York based composer. He has worked on a wide variety of projects, from films to video games. He scored the Sony game Horison Forbidden West alongside Oleksa Lozowchuk. His music for the documentary film Glen Eden has been screened at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. It has been heard through the festival circuit at Raindance Film Festival, Doc NYC, Vail Film Festival, the Arab Film Fest, Tallgrass Film Festival, and more.
Juan and Alex co-founded an advertising music storytelling house called Dekatu Scoring. They have worked on commercials for Air Company, Hourglass Cosmetics, and ILIA Beauty.
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